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From TV's "30 Rock" to "Baby Mama," "Admission" and "Muppets Most Wanted," Tina Fey has offered up some priceless portraits of working women. But for her latest movie — the new-to-DVD dramedy "This Is Where I Leave You" (2014, Warner, R, $30) — Fey gets the opportunity to try something completely different. "I play a lot of characters who are defined by their work, or they work too much," says Fey, 44, a native of Upper Darby. "But this is a lady who doesn't work. She doesn't work! And that alone was interesting to me. "I had a lot of fun talking to the costume designer. It's, like,...

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